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Christopher D. Rahn
Also published under: C. D. Rahn, C. Rahn
Affiliation
Department of Mechanical Engineering
The Pennsylvania State University
University Park, PA, USA
Biography
Christopher D. Rahn received the B.S. degree in mechanical engineering from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, in 1985, and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of California, Berkeley, in 1986 and 1992, respectively.,He was with Space Systems/LORAL as a Research and Development Engineer for three years. In 1992, he joined the Department of Mechanical Engineering, Clemson University, Clemson, SC. In 2000, he moved to The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, where he is currently a Professor of mechanical engineering in the Department of Mechanical and Nuclear Engineering. His research interests include the dynamic modeling, design, and control of distributed nonlinear systems with application to robotics, mechatroni... Author's Published Works